Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 2 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 3 | Essential for sets , you can sit back and relax with your favourite mag or catch up on the gossip with the girl under the next dryer ! |
| 4 | If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind . |
| 5 | It is a kind of mystery tour , with an unimaginable destination ; not surprisingly many pupils fall asleep or jump off during the journey . |
| 6 | The other Non-academic Parties will also notify the Lead Organization of the sale or transfer out of the Project of any capital equipment for which any claim for payment has been made under this Agreement . |
| 7 | Its heroes do not characteristically commit suicide or ride off into the sunset : they settle down , marry , and make comfortable and elaborate treaties with the world they live in . |
| 8 | This card may be placed next to the model or face up at the table edge to indicate that it is in play . |
| 9 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 10 | Bryony come and stand over here or hang on to the buggy whichever you want to do . |
| 11 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
| 12 | Dogs can easily leap over it or get in through the hedge on the south side . |
| 13 | He did not , as usual , read or stare out of the window or make tea or do any of the things Robert assumed one usually caught teachers doing in off-duty moments . |
| 14 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 15 | John Dykstra , with Richard Edlund and others , was able to set up a camera rig that moved very precisely in metal tracks , with the camera on an arm that could move up and down , while the camera itself could pan from side to side or tilt up and down or any combination or roll over to the side and also change focus as needed . |
| 16 | For the new knitter there is an ‘ Introduction Day ’ on 26th September for anyone about to buy a machine or find out about the classes for beginners . |
| 17 | So , the perfectionist might be instructed to do something wrong at work , or deliberately blemish their appearance , or turn up to the group five minutes late . |
| 18 | Every winter large objects with large surface as get blown over ( or turn up by the roots ) . |
| 19 | If you tend to throw things , put objects away or go out into the garden . |
| 20 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 21 | Stay out here or go back into the classroom , she did n't want to be found out there if by any chance Miss Graining the Head came by . |
| 22 | They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly . |
| 23 | Taxing the benefit , and introducing tighter medical checks will also , says the Government , force many to find jobs or sign back on the dole . |
| 24 | Servants often run off if they do n't like their mistress , or fall out with the rest of the staff . |
| 25 | It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped . |
| 26 | However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard . |
| 27 | He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age . |
| 28 | Young people who have completed GCSEs at 16 can choose whether to stay on at school or college , or come out into the labour market and , possibly , take an entitlement to YT . |
| 29 | Alternatively nip down to the beach , or stroll down to the centre of Puerto del Carmen where the nightlife buzzes , and the cafés and bars stay open until the small hours before returning to your very own home from home apartment , complete with facilities , terrace and garden . |
| 30 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |